Eye set



Aug. 27 19290 A. KONOFF 1,726,184

EYE SET Filed Oct. 16, 1926 INVEN TOR Qmwaq I A TTORNEY Patented Aug.27, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER KONOFF, OF YORK, N. Y., ASSIGIN'OR TO MARKO'N MANUFACTURINGCO. INC, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

EYE SET.

Application filed October 16, 1926. Serial No. 141,943.

This invention relates to an eye set, and particularly to means embodiedtherein by which to attach the eye set within a doll head, the inventionbeing in the nature of an improvement over what is shown and describedin my pending applications Serial Nos. 95,198 and 105,678.

An object of the present invention is to provide increased efliciencyfor insuring a proper operative positioning of the eyes within the eyesockets of the doll head.

A. further object is to so construct the eye set that it may be quickly,easily and accurately attached within the doll head, by

relatively unskilled labor.

A more detailed object is to provide an eye set including a carrierwhich is adapted to be attached to the material of the doll head by theoutward thrust of a pair of attaching members into opposite portions ofthe doll head, and to provide means to insure uniform functioning of thetwo attaching members.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific thanthose referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed outin the course of the following description of the elements,combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principlesconstituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplatedwill be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of thisspecification, and in which I have shown merely a pre- .ferred form ofembodiment of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevational view of an eye set constructed inaccordance with this invention, said set being shown as it appears whenin position within a doll head, the

doll head being shown in vertical section.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View taken substantially upon the planeof line IIII of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of one of the attaching membersemployed.

Referring to the drawings for the purpose of a detailed description ofthe exemplary structure illustrated therein, the reference character Lindicates a doll head. Although a doll head is herein shown and referredto, nevertheless it will be understood that this invention is equallywell adapted for use 1n connection with any other toy or toys in whlchmoving eyes are utilized.

The doll head illustrated has the usual spaced eye sockets 1 and 2 atopposite sides of the central nose portion 3. Beyond the eye sockets 1and 2 the cheek portions of the head are preferably thickened as at 4and 5 so as to reinforce the cheek portions in the region adjacent tothe eye sockets and so as to provide opposite interior wall surfaces as6 and 7 which are substantially parallel to each other andtherebyadapted to constitwo eyes as 11 and 12, said eyes being adjustablyconnected with the cross rod in any desired manner such for instance asshown in my Patents Nos. 1,566,105, 1,580,051, 1,578,83a and 1,566,966or otherwise.

The body portion 8 of the carrier G is made from an elongated piece ofsheet metal bent into channel shape, and within the channel or guide-wayit carries a pair of attaching members as 13 and 1 1.

The attaching members 13'and 1 1 are lon- 1 gitudinally slidable alongthe channel and their outer end portions are formed with prongs as 15and 16 which, when the attaching members are slid outwardly away fromeach other, sink into the reinforced walls 6 and 7 of the head.

Before the insertion of this eye set into the doll head the attachingmembers 13 and let are of course in their innermost or normal positions,that is so that their outer ends do not project objectionably beyond theouter ends of the body 8, and their movement outwardly for driving theprongs 15 and 16 into embedded. relation within the cheek portions ofthe head is not performed until after the eye set has been moved intoposition with the eyes 11 and 1.2 held firmly into and against the eyesockets 1 and 2 of the head.

Since it is intended that when the attachiug members have been oncedriven outwardly into the cheek portions of the head they shallthereafter maintain their positions for continuing to properly supportthe eyes, the attacliing members are fitted so tightly within thechannel of the body 8 that retrogressive movement of the attachingmembers will not be likely.

Each of the attaching members 13 and 1a is provided with a suitableaperture 17., or other appropriate means, for co-operating with a toolto be user in operating the attaching members. The body 8 is alsoprovided with an aperture as 18, or other appropriate means, which maybe usable in conjunction with the tool and the openings 1: to assist inthe proper operation of the attaching members by the tool as will bemore fully set forth in an application presently to be filed.

When the supporting carrier his been once placed into position and theattaching members l3 and 14 have been driven outwardly said carrier willthereafter be rigid with the doll head.

The eye carrying portion 9 of the carrier G may take any desired form,its essential characteristic beinrsimply that it serves as a pivotbearing for directly supporting the cross rod ll) of the eye member H.In the form illustrated it consists of a pair of arms l9 and 20projecting forwardly from the not y 8 spaced apart, each of said armshaving a suitable bearing, at 21-21, therein within which the cross rod10 is free to to tate and to have a suitable longitudinal movement asmay be required, said bearing serving also to hold the cross rod adefinite distance from and parallel to the carrier G.

The pronged portions 15 and 16 of each of the attaching members are bentslightly backwardly out of the normal plane of carrier that during thetime while said pronmd portions are being thrust into the ma Vial of thedoll head they will operate to ease the carrier backwardly a distancecommensurate with the degree of inclination of said pronged portions andthus correspondingly ease the eyes 11 and 12 out of tight frictionalengagement with the walls of the eye sockets to thus permit of freeoscillatory movement of the eyes, as more fully set forth in myco-pcnding application Serial, No. waste.

The channel or guide-way provided in the carrier for slidably supportingthe attaching members is a straight line guide-way so that saidattaching members are adapted to move in a straight line away from eachother, the outer ends, or pronged portions of said attaching membersbeing bent backwardly from said straight line and into angular relationwith each other.

Any suitable means may be employed for causing the eye member tooscillate as the doll is moved from reclining position to uprightposition etc., and for this purpose the drawing illustrates the usualweight as 22 connected by an arm 23 with the cross rod 10. The gravitymovements of the weight, under change of the position of the doll, willoscillate the cross rod and cause the eyes to move between open andclosed positions.

It is a particular feature of the present invention to provide positivemeans for limitin the extent to which the pronged portions 15 and 16 maybe driven into the parallel walls 6 and 7, and to this end the attachingmembers are shown as being formed with relative extensive stop walls 24cfacing outwardly therefrom and adapted to engage directly against thewalls 6 and 7 when the prongs have reached a suitable depth. Forconvenience these walls 24: are formed by berntling laterally a lugportion as 25 of the material of the attaching member intermediate theprongs 15 and 16.

By this means the eye set itself is made to be self centering within thedoll head, that is to say that the tool which is employed to drive theattaching members need not be provided with features for insuringagainst excessive insertion of one or the other of the attaching memberssince when one attaching member has reached its appointed limit ofmovement the stop wall thereof will become effective, and any attempt todrive it further will re-act upon the opposite attaching member. Thuswhen the tool has driven the two attaching members to their prescribeddistance away from each other said attaching members will of necessitybe each driven the same distance into the doll head and the eye set thuscentered with respect to said head.

Since the extent to which the prongs l5 and 16 are driven into thematerial of the doll head determines the extent to which the carrier,and consequently the eyes, are eased backwardly from the eye sockets, itis apparout that the stop walls or lugs in given rela-' tion to thelength of said inclined prongs serve in concert with the degree ofinclination of said lugs to definitely determine the extent to which theeyes are eased from'the sockets.

As many changes could be made in this construction without departingfrom the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, itis intended that all matter contained in the above description or shownin the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative onlyand not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. An eye set comprising a pair of eyes anda supporting carrier therefor, attaching means comprised in the carrierby which to attach the carrier in position within a doll head, saidattaching means consisting of a pair of pronged members movable withrespect to each other to drive the prongs thereof into embedded relationwithin the material of the head, said prongs being inclined with respectto their path of movement to thereby cause an adjusting movement of theeyes with respect to the head co-incident with the movement of theprongs into the material of the head, and stop walls provided upon saidpronged members arranged to engage'the material of the head to limit theextent to which they may be driven.

2. An eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carriertherefor, attache ing means comprised in the carrier by which to attachthe carrier in position within a doll head, said attaching meansconsisting of a pair of pronged members movable with respect to eachother to drive the prongs thereof into embedded relation within thematerial of the head, and said pronged members each having a portionthereof bent laterally therefrom to provide a stop wall thereon at oneside only thereof arranged to engage the material of the head to limitthe extent to which the prongs may be driven.

3. An eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carriertherefor, attaching means comprised in the carrier by which to attachthe carrier in position within a doll head, said attaching meansconsisting of a pair of pronged members movable with respect to eachother to drive the prongs thereof into embedded relation within thematerial of the head, the carrier providing a guide-way within whichsaid attaching members are slidably movable away from each other duringmovement of the prongs thereof into the material of the head, the prongsof said attaching members respectively being spaced apart at the outerends of the attaching members, and a portion of each attaching memberintermediate the prongs thereof being projected laterally to provide astop Wall upon the attaching member for engaging the material of thehead to limit the extent to which the prongs may be driven.

4. In an eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a carrier therefor, thecombination therewith of force producing means comprised in the carrieroperable simultaneously to attach the carrier withiii a doll head and topositively adjustably move the carrier with respect to the head,together with means to engage the doll head to positively limit theextent of said adjustable movement.

5. The combination with a doll head having eye sockets, of an eye settherefor comprising a pair of eyes, attaching means for attaching saideyes within the doll head, said attaching means comprising movable partsto engage parts of the doll head for attaching the eye set within thedoll head, said movable parts having portions adapted to co-act with thedoll head to positively adjustably move a part of the eye set withrespect to the doll head co-incident with movement of said movable partsto attaching position,'and means to positively limit movement of saidmovable parts and to thereby determine the extent of said adjustablemovement.

6. An eye set for doll heads, said eye set comprising a pair of eyes anda supporting carrier therefor, the carrier including a main body portionand parts connected therewith and movable with respect thereto intendedto be driven into the material of the doll head for retaining thecarrier in position within the doll head, and stop walls provided at oneside only of said movable parts intended to engage the surface of thedoll head at one side only of said movable parts.

7. Aneye set for doll, heads, said eye set comprising a pair of eyes anda supporting carrier therefor, attaching means for said carriercomprising a pair of attaching members connected with the carrier oneadjacent each eye, each attaching member having a pointed portion andthe connection of the attaching members with the carrier providing formovement of the pointed portions away from each other whereby saidpointed portions may be thrust into the material of the doll headadjacent the eyes respectively,

and a stop provided at one side only of each attaching member intendedto engage against the surface of the doll head at one side only of saidpointed portions.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ALEXANDER KONOFF.

